Stuyvesant High School

News about Stuyvesant High School, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Aug. 31, 2013

New York City's Education Department reports that Stanley Teitel, principal of Stuyvesant High School, mishandled 2012 investigation into large cheating operation there; says Teitel, who was tipped off by a student about the cheating, set up a sting operation to catch the ringleader when he should have tried to preemptively thwart cheating by enforcing ban on phones inside schools. MORE

Jun. 24, 2013

Senior Jack Cahn won race for presidency of Student Union at Stuyvesant High School by 118 votes, but school's Board of Elections has disqualified him for what it says are campaign violations; Cahn is fighting to overturn the decision. MORE

Sep. 26, 2012

Former and current students at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan say lower-level cheating is part of the culture, and students employ several rationales for choosing to be dishonest; they describe teachers as discouraging cheating, but not always punishing it as severely as school policy dictates, perhaps in part because the school's social currency is high academic achievement. MORE

Sep. 8, 2012

Twelve Stuyvesant High School students are suspended and more than 50 others are facing suspension because of new evidence that has emerged in a continuing investigation of cheating during final exams in June. MORE

Aug. 4, 2012

Stuyvesant High School principal Stanley Teitel announces his retirement amid a continued investigation into a cheating scandal that rocked New York City's flagship public school. MORE

Jul. 10, 2012

New York City school officials say 69 Stuyvesant High School students are involved in cheating scandal using a cellphone and will have to retake exams; a student whose phone was confiscated, who is said to be at the center of the cheating network, faces possible suspension and may have to transfer to another school by fall; revelation that Stuyvesant students cheated on tests not considered particularly challenging for them is the latest example of the competitive pressures inside top schools. MORE

Jun. 27, 2012

Administrators at Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan are investigating whether students shared answers during a New York State Regents language exam by text messaging; several students say that cheating is a symptom of a broader and more widespread problem with priorities at Stuyvesant, where competition for top rankings is intense, and some say, overshadows the substance of learning. MORE

Jun. 7, 2012

Students at Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan, discontent with the school's dress code, wear prohibited clothing, like tank tops and mini-skirts, in an organized protest. MORE

Feb. 26, 2012

Rudi-Ann Miller is one of 40 blacks among the 3,295 students at Stuyvesant High School, long considered New York City's flagship public school; the number of black students at Stuyvesant has been declining, and many are concerned about the low numbers of blacks and Hispanics at the school, where admission is based entirely on the results of an entrance exam. (Series: A System Divided) MORE

Dec. 25, 2011

Excerpts from graduation speech delivered at Stuyvesant High School by math teacher Richard Geller, who died in 2011 and is featured in Times Magazine These American Lives section of The Lives They Lived issue. MORE

Nov. 11, 2011

Stuyvesant High School, which has won four New York City cross-country titles in last seven years, will try for another at upcoming championship in the Bronx. MORE

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